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Prepare for cooling, not warming. From World Net Daily:

New data backs 'ice age' prediction
As the United Nations prepares for its 2014  Climate Summit in New York this month with an agenda to advance a new  carbon-emissions regulatory agreement to supersede the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the  Russian scientist who correctly predicted the lack of global warming over the  past 19 years has gained new scientific support for his belief that Earth is  in the beginning of a prolonged ice age.

A  new study from Lund University in Sweden, published  Aug. 17 in Nature Geoscience, has reconstructed solar activity during the  last ice age, the last so-called “global maximum” extending from 20,000 to  10,000 years ago. Analysis of trace elements in ice cores in Greenland and from  cave formations in China indicates the growth and melting of a thick ice sheet  stretching from the Arctic to northern Germany were related to variations in the  sun’s UV radiation output.

“The study shows an unexpected link between solar activity and climate  change. It shows both that changes in solar activity are nothing new and that  solar activity influences the climate, especially on a regional level.  Understanding these processes helps us to better forecast the climate in certain  regions,” said Raimund Muscheler, lecturer in quaternary geology at Lund  University and co-author of the study, in a widely  cited interview published by LaboratoryEquipment.com.

The recently published Lund University solar research lends support to the  research of Russian scientist Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of the  prestigious Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in St. Petersburg. Abdussamatov has  compiled scientific data supporting the theory “sun heats earth,” refuting  global warming theorists that insist greenhouse gases are the culprit in a  phenomenon of anthropogenic global warming.

Using data analyzing sunspot activity going back to the 19th century,  Abdussamatov argues that total sun irradiance is the primary factor responsible  for climate variations on Earth, citing evidence for his theory the earth is  about to enter a prolonged cooling phase because  sunspot activity has been in a weak “mini-max” in the current Solar Cycle 24  after hitting a “solar minimum” in 2009.

In  a scientific paper published in St. Petersburg last November. Abdussamotiv  predicted that “after the maximum of solar Cycle-24, from approximately  2014, we can expect the start of the next bicentennial cooling cycle with a  little Ice Age in 2055 plus or minus 14 years.” He believes a global freeze  “will come about regardless of whether or not industrialized countries put a cap  on their greenhouse gas emissions.”

The evidence for this is strong - historical record as well. We have good temperature and CO2 proxies going back a hundred thousand years and it always shows that the CO2 levels lag temperature levels by about 700 years. They also show that we were up to 9,000 ppm CO2 at times and temps were in the 70's to 90's

As for the recent minima (Maunder and Dalton), the sunspot provide a great proxy for solar output and both times, there were long times of zero sunspots. We are in for a long cold time and the sooner we realize this, the easier people will adapt.

 

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